DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY QUESTION BANK IT-2403 SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PART A 1. What is software project management? 2. What is a project? 3. List the characteristics of the products of software projects? 4. What are the three activity of software project management? 5. What is feasibility study? 6. What is planning? 7. What is project execution? 8. List different stages of project life cycle. 9. What is verification and validation? 10. What is system and sub system? 11. What is Management? 12. Who are stakeholders? List out the types stakeholders. 13. What are the characteristics that make software projects differ from other projects? 14. Which factor decides the success of a project? 15. Differentiate Objectives and products. 16. List out the activities of management. 17. List some problems associated with software projects. 18. Define Process. 19. Define PBS. 20. What are the elements of the product description? 21. How do you define project activities in software project management? 22. What is the need for contract management in software project management? 23. Define Contract Management. 24. What is Requirements Analysis? 25. What is requirement specification?

26. What is Design? 27. What is coding? 28. What is strategic planning? 29. What is a project steering committee? What are its roles? 30. What is a Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)? Show the hierarchical diagram of a sample PBS. 31. Define maintenance & support. 32. What do you mean by open versus closed system? 33. What is sub-optimization? 34. List out the activities involved in management. 35. Differentiate verification and validation.

PART B 1. Explain the stepwise project planning in Software Project Management? 2. Explain about the activities covered by Software Project Management? 3. What is management? Explain the problems with software projects. 4. Explain the characteristics of project in detail. 5. For each stage of a typical IS development project list the type of personnel who are likely to be involved. (or) Explain about Stake Holders in detail. (8) 6. i) Explain the activities of software project management with example. (8) ii) Illustrate few problems associated with software projects. (8) 7. Explain the various SDLC activities as outlined by ISO 12207 with a neat diagram. 8. (i) What are the activities covered by software project management? Explain. (8) (ii) Identify the actions that could prevent each of the following risks from materializing or could reduce the impact if it occur.

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a) A key member of team leaving. b) Introducing a new version of the operating system that has errors in it. c) A disk containing copies of the most up to date version of the software under development being corrupted.

d) Government changes the taxation rules, altering the way that Value Added Tax (VAT) is to be calculated in an order processing system under development. 9. If project cannot be delivered within the deadline, explain how it will be changed in stepwise project planning? Explain your answer with a suitable example. 10. With a suitable example explain the different activities handled by software project management? UNIT II - PROJECT EVALUATION PART A 1. What are the 3 criteria project evaluations depends? 2. What is feasibility study? 3. What do you means by programme in software project strategic assessment? 4. How economic assessment of a project information system is made? 5. What are Development Costs? 6. What are setup costs? 7. What is Net Profit? 8. What is payback period? 9. What are Return on Investment? 10. What is a discounted cash flow (DCE) technique? 11. What is the benefit of cost-benefit analysis techniques and decision trees? 12. How you can collect internal data and external data? 13. What is unstructured data and structured data? 14. Define project Evaluation. 15. Define technical assessment. 16. What are the steps in cost-benefit analysis? 17. What is meant by cost flow forecasting? 18. How will you present the values of future cash flow? 19. When Net present value is calculated for a project? 20. What is IRR? How it is calculated? 21. What is the concept of strategic programmes? 22. What is the use of decision tree in risk evaluation? 23. What are direct benefits?

24. What are assessable indirect benefits? 25. What are intangible benefits? 26. List the typical issues to be considered during strategic assessment. 27. Write the steps in building a WBS for software? 28. Differentiate between strategic assessment and technical assessment. 29. What is mean by known risk? 30. Give some units for measuring the size of the software.

PART B 1) Explain how a project can be evaluated against strategic, technical and economic criteria. 2) Explain in detail about various cost benefit analysis techniques with examples. 3) Describe Cash flow forecasting and its applications in projects. 4) Explain why discounted cash flow techniques provide better criteria for project selection that net profit or return on investment. Justify your answer. 5) Explain the “Internal Rate of Return” method for measuring the profitability of the project. Also mention its advantages over the NPV method. 6) Describe how cost benefit evaluation techniques can be used to choose the best among competing project proposal. 7) What is risk evaluation? Explain the use of decision trees in risk evaluation. 8) Discuss in detail about the risk evaluation. 9) Evaluate the risk involved in a project and suggest appropriate strategies for minimizing potential cost. 10) Explain the various activities of project evaluation. Give example.